Word: uphold
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...specifically attacked Conant on the grounds that he had failed to uphold the rights of American citizens, had encouraged the release of German war criminals, and had interfered with the independence of the judiciary while serving as U. S. High Commissioner to Germany...
Jared M. Diamond, Duane J. Murner, and Steven R. Rivkin will debate the affirmative at Princeton. John B. Hermanson, James L. Kincaid, and Jonathan Kozol will uphold the negative side of the topic in the Yale contest...
Winning Ways. Now he changed his tactics, decided to win his place "constitutionally." Rightly confident that there was voters' magic in the name Napoleon, Louis ran for the French presidency in 1848, won by comfortable millions. After swearing to uphold the Republic and constitution, he proceeded to ditch both, and in 1852 declared himself Emperor Napoleon...
...approve the marriage (presumably because such marriages violate the law of God), even though he man "readmit her to Communion after a decent interval" (presumably because such marriages do not violate the law of God) . . . It is certainly to be noted that the English church of 1533 tended to uphold the laws of God a little more briskly than does the modern English Church...
...Although I have great respect for the high level of scholarship at the University of Washington, I personally would not return there for a visiting engagement before there are more concrete steps to show that the university will uphold academic freedom more consistently than it has in the past," Weisskopf continued...